Up From the Counter

The top operating company of the country's
biggest retail food sellers announced that it had a new president. The
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of New Jersey, whose executives have a
passion for anonymity, needed only a three-sentence press release last
week to say that Ralph W. Burger had been named to succeed David T.
Bofinger, who died last December. To businessmen, 61-year-old Burger
was almost completely unknown, and A. & P. did not enlighten them. He
had never been listed in Who's Who in America nor in any of the other
directories with which U.S. industry keeps...